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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Kommunismens historie i Tyskland, borgerkrigen i Spania og hvordan alt dette relateres til kunst fortalt i en tankestrøm stil, helt utrolig opplevelse. Gleder meg til å lese volum 2 etterhvert!
not the easiest read, but imaginative and so detailed, it felt extremely real
A friend mentioned this book to me, and described its conceit, and I immediately got it from the library and started a book club ex nihilo with some guy friends before reading a single word. I wasn't disappointed. For a book to be both technically sophisticated *and* committedly partisan in its socialist politics is a revelation. It makes you think all sorts of things about what a contemporary proletarian novel could be, what the aesthetics of resistance would be that was both cognizant of world socialist history, but also not bound to its more dogmatic views on literature. That is what is offered by the object of the book itself. What it talks about, the specific artistic and literary works that it critiques and analyzes, gives you an even more exciting glimpse into the possibilities of future radical art. We need only be equipped with the manifesto of dissatisfaction taken from the character of the book when he says "All these things may have been informative, stimulating, and perhaps also indicative of the future, but they did not chime with the totality we were striving for, instead they expressed traditional notions, conventions that ultimately did not renounce the standards of the dominant class."
The book is filled with these kinds of ungainly slogans and aphorisms, which I ate like candy. Make sure you peruse the index in the back which describes who all of the names actually are (apparently there are only like 3 fictional characters in the entire book filled to the brim with them). Also, as much as we all love Jameson, you can avoid the introduction, it's a healthy serving of baloney, including even one of his nerdy greimas squares, which I couldn't make heads of tails of.
The book is filled with these kinds of ungainly slogans and aphorisms, which I ate like candy. Make sure you peruse the index in the back which describes who all of the names actually are (apparently there are only like 3 fictional characters in the entire book filled to the brim with them). Also, as much as we all love Jameson, you can avoid the introduction, it's a healthy serving of baloney, including even one of his nerdy greimas squares, which I couldn't make heads of tails of.
challenging
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
reviewed this for the marx & philosophy review of books https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19174_the-aesthetics-of-resistance-volume-ii-by-peter-weiss-reviewed-by-chris-beausang/
Have you ever had a book slap you on the ass? If not, read this book.